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...Castro landed 81 seasick adventurers from Mexico in an invasion that drew only derision from President Fulgencio Batista, 56. The dictator is no longer derisive. Last week, in Colon Cemetery in Havana, he dropped his broad face in his hands and wept as a guard of honor buried Colonel Fermin Cowley, 47, one of his top commanders, who was gunned down by a carload of Castro men on a downtown street near his headquarters in Holguin (pop. 36,000) in rebel-ridden Oriente province...
...with zillions of requests for baby bulls, describes the fantastic things the boy does to save the life of his pet. Nevertheless, the moviemakers have seen to it that the picture comes to a bloody climax in one of the most thrillingly realistic bullfights -starring the famous Mexican matador, Fermin Rivera-ever seen in a commercial film. It's great stuff for the youngsters, but apt to be rough on people of more tender years...
...accounts agreed that the episode started as a protest by students of Fermin Toro high school in Caracas (pop. 1,000,000) against the sudden switch of examinations from the usual period in July to February. High-spiritedly, the teen-agers marched off toward the Ministry of Education. Almost any mild measure would presumably have stopped them, but the police-minded government of President Marcos Pérez Jimenez sent well-armed cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived...
...Montreal last summer, Newcombe got mad one day and went home to Elizabeth, N.J. to brood. Before the week was out, he telephoned Business Manager Buzzy Bavasi and asked humbly: "Will you take a damn fool back?" Last spring, at Vero Beach, Fla. Newcombe took a punch at Catcher Fermin Guerra of the Philadelphia A's, with whom he had trouble in the Cuban League last winter. Says Teammate Robinson, referring both to Newcombe's pitching and behavior: "He's smarter...
...crowded, sleepless, dance-filled, dust-filled, wine-filled week of the festival of San Fermin at Pamplona is the climax of Spain's bullfighting year. Last week Spain's greatest season of the corrida in a generation came to a great climax. When the toro malo, the bad one with 21 painted on his side, lay dead in the sand, the aficionados had seen about all there was to see at bullfights...